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MUMBAI: Pre-placement offers at IIM Calcutta have got off to a good start despite tough overall hiring conditions. The batch of 2012-14, with 460 students, has already bagged 47 pre-placement offers (PPOs) and 11 pre-placement interviews (PPIs) as of the first week of August.

In comparison, IIM-C's 462-strong 2011-13 batch had a total of 90 PPOs by February 2013, before going into final placements. The PPOs have primarily been driven by management consulting firms, both in terms of the number of offers as well as the conversion rate. The four big firms, McKinsey & Co, Bain & Co, BCG and AT Kearney, alone have offered 27 PPOs. At least 30 students interned with these companies.

Both McKinsey & Company and Bain & Company have offered full-time positions to all their interns from IIM Calcutta. The Boston Consulting Group has made 10 PPOs while AT Kearney has given out four.

This first lot of offers, coming in the wake of summer internships being wrapped up by end-May/early June, also includes offers from Hindustan Unilever, Microsoft, Accenture Management Consulting, Royal Bank of Scotland, Aditya Birla Group and Flipkart. MH Alshaya Co offered PPOs, international offers based out of Kuwait, to all its six IIM-C interns.

This apart, Piramal Group has offered a PPO to a doctor pursuing his MBA at IIM-C while Facebook and Mondelez International have offered PPIs to two and four interns respectively. First-time recruiters during the summer placements such as Sutherland Global and Basix have also extended PPOs.

Summer internships span from April to May/mid-June for IIM students. PPOs start trickling in from June and continue till the batch goes into final placements.